Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-21
THE RAILROADS.
President W. B. Strong of the Atchison
Company will Soon be in the West
to Open the Campaign.
The Fort Worth Western Wanted by
Breckenridge-The Fort Worth and
Rio Grande-Home Notes.
Home Notes.

of the Texas and Pacific, was in the city
yesterday.
The Fort Worth and Denver and the
Texas and Pacific are doing considerable
car repairing in this city.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe sent
fourteen carloads of steel to the Terri
tory from Fort Worth yesterday.
Nine carloads of heavy steel rails for
the Rio Grande division of the Texas and
Pacific went to the front yesterday.
Track laying goes on without abate-
ment on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe line in the Indian Territory north of
Red river.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe will
ioin tracks in the Indian Territory some
time in May with the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe and that means much for
Fort Worth.
The engineers of the Fort Worth
Western have run two preliminary lines
through Jack and Young counties, and at
last accounts were setting stakes at the
rate of five miles day.
General Superintendent Webster Sny-
ner, Genera Land Agent T. W. Jackson,
and other officials of the Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe, are expected tc arrive in
Fort Worth this morning.
The Texas and Pacific has received two
new ten-wheel eXtension-front locomo-
tives from New York factory. The re-
Ceivers are improving the equipment as
rapidly as they are the track.
g. II. Turner, travelling freight agent
of the Missouri Pacific, was in Fort
Worth last night on the business OF his
road. Mr.. Turner covers good portion
of the state of Texas for the Missouri
Pacific.
When track laying begins on the Fort
Worth and Rio Grande it will be pushed
rapidly to Granbury. The work on the
Brazos bridge progresses finely and Con-
tractor Hughes is rapidly adding to the
number Of miles graded.
The Fort Worth and Denver has sent
twenty cars to Marshall for ties, bridge
timbers, ETC., to be used on the extern
sion. When these are unloaded at the
front, it is understood they will at once
be sent back for more of the same ma
terial.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe has
another magnificent advertisement in the
field bringing its reclining chair cars to
the notice of the public. The latest
hangers read, Galveston and Fort Worth,
the only through route is over the Gulf,
Colorado anC Santa Fe."
A director Of Fort Worth railroad
company Id yesterday: "Within five
years four ifths of the wealth of Texas
will be we of Dallas, and Fort Worth
will ha' three-ffths of the country
trading with her, the balance going to
southv 1stern and extreme western
cities"
The Fort Worth Western made the cit
liens of Breckenridge a proposition to
build road through that city, which
proposition has been accepted, and what
the place will do will soon be put in
black and white. Breckenridge has re-
sponded literally and will doubtless get |
what she wants.
Ten days from to-day the stockholders |
of the Southern Kansas of Texas will |
meet at their headquarters, main office |
and initial point Fort Worth. The direc- |
tory of this corporation comprises men of |
unlimited capital, unequaled business |
capacity and national reputation as eX- |
perienced railroad men.
j. II. Travis, master of bridges and |
buildings of the Texas and Pacific, spent |
yesterday in Fort Worth. He reports |
all damage by the fire at the arlesian |
well drill-house repaired, and says work |
of drilling will be resumed to-day. The
we'll is now 700 feet deep, and the drill |
being in soft Shale, the work will go on |
rapidly.
G. Fraley, general bridge foreman of |
the Rio Grande division of the Texas and |
Pacifc,wa in Fort Worth yesterday. The
gentleman says the company, he thinks,
is near water in their great artesian well
here. Mr. Fraley states that work at the
Strawn mines goes on steadily, and that
it will only be few days until the coal is
brought to Fort Worth.
There can be no question that the Fort
Worth and New Orleans will soon have
diff, Trent terminal facilities from those at
present enjoyed. President Dillingham;
and his fellow-officers determined on that
point when they were last in Fort Worth.
An engineer of the road who has in
vestigated the matter will submit his
report to headquarters in day or two.
Unless all signs fail Mr. Huntington
will soon have the Houston and Texas
Central road part of the Southern Pa
cifc, owned and operated by the latter
corporation. Mr.. Huntington owns a
fine road terminating at Fort Worth, and
it is among the immediate probabilities
that he, with Mr.. Croker and ex-senator
Stanford, will soon have greater interests
here, and may before long be IN this city
to look after their property.
William Veale and Capt. Robinson of
Breckenridge, Stephens county, were in
For: Worth yesterday as railroad COM
mittee and waited upon the officials of
the Fort Worth Western in regard to the
building of branch from the road to Al
bany through Crystal Falls to Brecken-
ridge. Col. Lawrence states that the
committee made very liberal PROPOSE
ton, cut that it has not been reduced to
writing and he could not at present say
whether the road would go to Brecken-
ridge or not.
Saturday evening First Vice-President
Lawrence of the Fort Worth Western
will leave for New York city, and will
leave New York, on his return trip, with
Gen Slocum and committee of directors
of the road on the 9th. If nothing un-
foreseen occurs, this will bring to our city
by January 81 not only President Strong {
and party of the Atchison, Santa Fe and t
Southern Kansas of Texas, but Gen. Slo. t
cum and his fellow directors of the Fort |
Worth Western. From what has been |
learned, Fort Worth will be prepared to t
receive the distinguished gentlemen. q
The Texas and Pacific will soon be t
bringing Fort Worth coke-making coal
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